New Arts Workers’ Group Will Fight Inequities Maintained by Museum Management
A group of US-based museum professionals, artists, and cultural workers have banded together to launch a new group that they hope will remedy decades-old fractures within art institutions. The group,...
View ArticleNicole Eisenman’s Views on Palestine Caused Funding Issues for Chicago...
A Chicago retrospective for Nicole Eisenman, a celebrated artist who has spoken out in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza, faced funding issues because some collectors would not patronize the show due to...
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Alliance of Fine Art Shippers and Arcis Brings Innovative Solution to...
Art logistics and art storage services have long been separate entities, creating difficulties for collectors looking for comprehensive care and management of their art. A new alliance between Fine...
View ArticleArt Institute of Chicago Receives Record $75 M. Gift Toward Expansion
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) received a $75 million donation from Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed to support future expansion, the museum announced on Tuesday. The largest naming gift in...
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30-Year-Old Painter Michaela Yearwood-Dan Joins Hauser & Wirth
Michaela Yearwood-Dan, a painter whose colorful abstractions have generated a loyal following, has joined Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest galleries in the world. At just 30 years old, she is...
View ArticleThree Workers at New York’s Noguchi Museum Fired after Wearing Keffiyehs on...
Three employees at the Noguchi Museum in New York were fired for violating an internal policy that banned keffiyehs, a garment symbolic of Palestinian culture. A fourth employee, the director of...
View ArticleRare Celtic Helmet Thought to Be 2,400 Years Old Excavated in Poland
A Celtic helmet that archaeologists believe is around 2,400 years old has been discovered in Poland. Described by its finders as “very rare,” the helmet was unearthed at the Łysa Góra site in the...
View ArticleMoMA Director Glenn Lowry to Step Down in 2025 After Leading the Museum for...
Glenn Lowry, the director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, will step down from his post in 2025, bringing to a close a 30-year tenure that will have made him the longest-serving leader in the...
View Article9 Shows to See During the Getty’s Science-Themed PST ART Festival
Experimentalism regularly reigns supreme in the latest edition of PST ART, a recurring, Getty Foundation–run initiative in which dozens of museums in Los Angeles and the surrounding region stay shows...
View ArticleStonewall Museum Ends Membership with Florida Tourism Organization After...
The Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, canceled its membership with the state’s official tourism marketing corporation, Visit Florida, after that organization...
View ArticleBrooklyn Museum Rebrands After 200 Years
Can a 200-year-old institution rebrand as cutting edge? The Brooklyn Museum is attempting to do just that with its new logo design. The new “visual identity” of the museum entails a sans serif font,...
View ArticleLegal Advocacy Groups Call for Iran to End Campaign Targeting Dissident Artists
A new report co-published by two legal U.S.-based advocacy groups calls on Iran to stop a years-long campaign to persecute artists, a push that grew more intense after the death of Mahsa Amini in...
View Article5 Shows to See During Berlin Art Week
Berlin is a city as defined by its seasons as it is by its cultural output. It’s fitting, then, that Berlin’s two major annual art events, Gallery Weekend and Art Week, are staged at periods when the...
View ArticleBelgium’s Office Baroque Gallery Shutters After 17 Years in Business
Office Baroque, the influential Belgian contemporary art gallery founded by Marie Denkens and Wim Peeters in 2007, has shut down after 17 years in business. “It is with great sadness and deep...
View ArticleViennacontemporary’s New Director Wants to Show Vienna’s Rising Stature in...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. When thousands of Taylor Swift fans saw...
View ArticleUnseen for 30 Years, Van Gogh Harbor Scene Is Poised to Shatter Auction...
For the first time in 30 years, Vincent van Gogh’s Les canots amarrés (Moored Boats) is set to hit the auction block. The 1887 painting will appear at Christie’s Hong Kong on September 26 with an...
View Article3,000-Year-Old Military Fort Unearthed in Northern Egypt
A 3,000-year-old Egyptian fort used for defense against invading Libyan tribes and sea peoples from the eastern Mediterranean has been discovered by archaeologists, according to the Egyptian ministry...
View ArticleDealer David Lewis Joins Hauser & Wirth as Senior Director After Closing His...
David Lewis, a taste-making New York dealer who recently shuttered his gallery in the city, has joined Hauser & Wirth, where he will now serve as senior director. Lewis’s eponymous gallery opened...
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In a Revelatory Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibition, Paintings of New York Unlock an...
If things had gone differently, Georgia O’Keeffe would be famous for her paintings of skyscrapers, not her pictures of flowers. Starting in 1925, she began painting tall, monolith-like structures in...
View ArticleWho Will Succeed Glenn Lowry as Director of MoMA?
New York’s Museum of Modern Art is set to enter a new era next year when Glenn Lowry, its longtime director, departs his post after 30 years at the helm. “I didn’t want to be the person who stayed too...
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